CVE-2026-34601 (GCVE-0-2026-34601)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-02 17:47 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:09
VLAI?
Title
xmldom: XML injection via unsafe CDATA serialization allows attacker-controlled markup insertion
Summary
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module. In xmldom versions 0.6.0 and prior and @xmldom/xmldom prior to versions 0.8.12 and 0.9.9, xmldom/xmldom allows attacker-controlled strings containing the CDATA terminator ]]> to be inserted into a CDATASection node. During serialization, XMLSerializer emitted the CDATA content verbatim without rejecting or safely splitting the terminator. As a result, data intended to remain text-only became active XML markup in the serialized output, enabling XML structure injection and downstream business-logic manipulation. This issue has been patched in xmldom version 0.6.0 and @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.12 and 0.9.9.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-91 - XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
Assigner
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